Guy Kurt Lachmann

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Guy Kurt Lachmann (born December 5, 1906 in Neunkirchen, Saar , † November 11, 1987 in Saarbrücken ) was a Jewish German - French resistance fighter against National Socialism . In 1948 he became the first state police president of the Saar Protectorate .

Life

Guy Kurt Lachmann was born as the son of the Neunkirchen factory owner Heinrich Lachmann and Anna, geb. May born. The father ran the family business Menesa, which manufactured household items and aluminum pots. Lachmann "grew up in a bourgeois, conservative, Jewish milieu". His father was one of the few Jewish front-line officers of the First World War to be awarded the Iron Cross and also a member of the German-Saarland People's Party (DSVP). In protest against the conservative attitude of his parents, Lachmann became a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .

After graduating from secondary school in Neunkirchen, Lachmann studied economics in Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg . In 1929 he became an authorized signatory and commercial director in the family company. After the death of his father in 1931, who died as a result of his war injuries, Lachmann took over the management of the family business. In addition to his work, he was involved in the German Sports Club of Neunkirchen, especially in athletics . The threat of anti-Semitism in Germany and the persecution, threats and exclusion of Jewish association members finally politicized Lachmann. He intensified his engagement in the Reichsbanner and became a member of the Socialist Protection Association . Following the announcement of the voting results, which with a 90% return of the Saar territory to the German Reich had shown emigrated Lachmann to France and settled in Colmar , where he worked as a commission agent for a former customer.

In July 1937 he took French citizenship and married Alice Netter. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. On September 16, 1939, Lachmann was drafted into the French army . On June 12, 1940, he was seriously injured in a battle with the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner of war. However , he was able to successfully prevent an amputation of his leg. He pretended to be a Lorraine native to the Secret Field Police and was able to successfully hide his Jewish roots. In November 1940 he was released from captivity and traveled to his family in the Vosges . He found work in a household goods store of the Peugeot group in Montbéliard . In 1941 at the latest, the Gestapo began to look for him and his family. His brother Hans Lachmann was arrested on May 5, 1944 and transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp , where he remained until the end of the war.

Guy Kurt Lachmann escaped arrest, however. Since 1941 he was a member of the Resistance (code name: "George Latil"). Among other things, he was a member of the Francs-tireurs et partisans and held the post of section head of the Comité Militaire National . From 1944 he was a commander in the Forces françaises de l'intérieur .

After Germany's liberation from National Socialism , in 1945 he was a captain on General Pierre Kœnig's staff for a short time in command of the French internment camp Le Vernet , which now housed German prisoners of war. In the same year, however, he was posted to Germany, where he became district commander in Saarburg on June 10, 1945 . On March 11, 1948, he became state police president of the Saarland, an office which he held until the rejection of the Saar Statute and the resettlement in 1957.

In 1956 he became president of the Société Internationale de Pétrole et de Chimie in Strasbourg.

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  1. ↑ s. Saarland biographies , http://www.saarland-biografien.de/frontend/php/result_detail.php?id=227
  2. ^ Hans-Walter Herrmann , Gerhard Paul: Resistance and Denial in Saarland 1935-1945. That splintered no . Dietz 1989: as google-book , page 156
  3. ↑ Guy Kurt Lachmann ( Memento from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on saarland-biografien.de
  4. ↑ a b c Hans-Walter Herrmann, Gerhard Paul: Resistance and Denial in Saarland 1935–1945. That splintered no . Dietz 1989: as google-book , page 160ff
  5. ↑ Hans Lachmann ( memento of April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on saarland-biografien.de
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Laughman, Guy Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish Franco-German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1987
Place of death Saarbrücken